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Current Affairs Questions for IBPS Clerk Mains 2017: 10th Jan 2018

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Current Affairs Quiz Based on The Hindu: 10th Jan

Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With IBPS Clerk Mains round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Current Affairs on a daily basis for IBPS Clerk so that you can do well in the exam. These current affairs are based on current news. Let us see how many questions you attempt accurately.

Q1. Philippe Coutinho has recently become the second most expensive player after his transfer from team Liverpool to the team Barcelona. He is from which country?
(a) France
(b) Denamrk
(c) Russia
(d) Brazil
(e) Portugal

S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. Team Liverpool sold Brazilian football player Philippe Coutinho to Team Barcelona for 160 million Euros ($192 million). With this, transfer of Philippe Coutinho has become the 2nd Most Expensive transfer in World Soccer History.

S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. PM Narendra Modi inaugurates the first Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) Parliamentary Conference in Delhi on the occasion of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. The day is celebrated every year to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community in the development of India.

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. Union Minister of Earth Sciences Dr Harsh Vardhan dedicated India’s fastest and first multi-petaflops supercomputer named ‘Pratyush’ to the nation in Pune. It is established at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.

Q4. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is commemorated across the nation to mark the _______________.
(a) return of Mahatma Gandhi
(b) 1st visit of Nelson Mandela in India
(c) 1st visit of Dalai Lama in India
(d) return of Subhash Chandra Bose in India
(e) None of the given options is true

S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas commemorates the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa to Mumbai on 9 January 1915.

Q5. Which among the following city has become first in the world to launch common card for rides on public buses and the metro?
(a) Bengaluru
(b) Delhi
(c) Kolkata
(d) Kochi
(e) Jaipur

S5. Ans.(b)
Sol. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal launched a common card for rides on public buses and the metro. Delhi is the first city in the country to have a common mobility card, which can at present be used on 200 DTC and 50 cluster buses plying on different routes, apart from metro trains.

S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. Powerlifting world champion Saksham Yadav died of his injuries after road accident near Delhi. Yadav had won a gold medal for the country in the 2017 powerlifting championship in Moscow, Russia.

S8. Ans.(d)
Sol. World’s largest Ice Festival 'International Ice and Snow Festival' was held in Harbin, China. This is one of China’s coldest cities in the winter. It is the 34th annual Ice Festival in Harbin, north-east China.

Q9. Name the state that has topped the logistics index chart, according to a Report released by Union Minister for Commerce & Industry Suresh Prabhu.
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Gujarat
(c) Karnataka
(d) Kerala
(e) Arunachal Pradesh

S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. Gujarat has topped the logistics index chart, according to a Report released by Union Minister for Commerce & Industry Suresh Prabhu in New Delhi. The chart is an indicator of the efficiency of logistical services necessary for promoting exports in particular and economic growth in general.

Q10. The provisional figures of Direct Tax collections up to December 2017 show that net collections are at Rs. 6.56 lakh crore which is ___________ higher than the net collections for the corresponding period of last year.
(a) 18.2%
(b) 17.5%
(c) 19.4%
(d) 17.5%
(e) 16.3%

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. The provisional figures of Direct Tax collections up to December 2017 show that net collections are at Rs. 6.56 lakh crore which is 18.2% higher than the net collections for the corresponding period of last year.

S11. Ans.(e)
Sol. Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO), the research arm of Ministry of Railways, has launched “New Online Vendor Registration System”. This new system provides major improvements and big changes in the registration system over the earlier system.